236 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



little distal to the level of the nodus. Hind wings with 7-8 ante- 

 nodals, 9 postnodals, two posttriangular rows increasing to three near 

 the level of separation of M 3 . Other venational details in the pre- 

 ceding table. 



Abdomen (segment 4 lost) 28 ?, hind wing 27, costal edge of stigma, 

 front wing, 2.5 mm. 



9 Unknown. 



Habitat : Surinam, i cT, Thorey. Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy, Cambridge, Mass. 



The specific name proposed refers to the structure of the genital 

 hamule, which is very distinctive. 



156. Micrathyria oscellata dentiens, subsp. nov. 



(Plate VII, fig. 130.) 



cP9 Brown stripe on the first lateral thoracic suture forked in its 

 upper half, brown metepimeral stripe running off from near the lower 

 end of the second lateral suture and reaching to the posterior margin 

 of the sclerite. Pale green antehumeral stripes not reaching to the 

 transverse green stripe in front of the antealar sinus. 



cT Abdominal segments 3-6 with a longitudinal yellow stripe on each 

 side reaching from the base of each segment to more than half its 

 length, although interrupted more or less by the transverse additional 

 carina (3), or suture (4-6), the part behind always narrower than that 

 in front of the carina or suture, or these stripes entirely absent from 6. 



Superior appendages with the proximal inferior tooth situated nearer 

 to the middle than two-fifths length, more prominent than the distal 

 tooth and more prominent than in the type of ocellata from Ecuador 

 or than in the Central American race of this species. 



d 71 ?. Front' wings with 8-9 (8) d\ 7-9 9 antenodals, hind wings 

 with 6 ^? ; yellowish-brown on the base of the latter reaching to the 

 cubito-anal (= submedian, de Selys) cross-vein, or not so far. Tips 

 of all the wings uncolored. 



Abdomen cJ 1 21.5-23, ? 19-20.5; hind wing c? 23. 5—2 5.5, 9 

 25-26 ; costal edge of stigma, front wing, c? 2-2.2, 9 2.3-2.6 mm. 



Habitat : — Brazil, Bom Fim, November 2, 1907, 2 d\ and Bar- 

 reiras, January 4, 1908, 1 J\ in the State of Bahia ; Muniz Freire, 

 Espiritu Santo, June 17, 1908, 2 $. All by J. D. Haseman. Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



This subspecies agrees more closely with the Central American 



